St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-08
The Novel Reception Which
President Cleveland Will
Receive in st. Paul.
How the Affair Will be Con-
Quoted at the ParlOrs
Of the Ryan.
The Arrangement Of the Car
nival Clubs Along the
Line of Procession.
Ladies of the Windsor Club
Will Ride in the Club
Float.

A gentleman was standing at Bridge
square yesterday afternoon talking to a
friend and exhibiting folded piece of
etching board, which he had extracted
from two envelopes. At first sight it
looked like a programme cover. On the
first page was large monogram of ''U.
ST." and ''City of st. Paul was engraved
within the monogram, and reading up
wards. On the third page was very
fine piece of work. There was an en-
graved photograph of the city, looking
down the river from point above the
WabaSha street bridge, so as to include
the three bridges OH the picture and
give new idea of st. Paul as a water
city. Below this was the following gen
erai invitation in the modern and very
odd adaptation OF old English round-tOp
lettering.
LIE HONOR ABLE MAYOR
COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ST.
PAUL, MINI,
Respectfully invite you to attend a Recep-
ton to
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND
MRS. CLEVELAND
AT HOTEL RYAN.
Monday evening. Oct. 10 1887,
From 8 until II o'clock.
ROBERT A. SMITH, Mayor.
GEN JOHN b. SANBORN,
Chairman Committee of Invitation.
An answer IS requested.
This was the general invitation sent
out for the presidential reception at the
Ryan Monday evening, and 1t, as also
Lhe invitation to the subcommittee on
reception, is a piece of high art The
;:adges for the subcommittee are also
ready. They are i'll pale blue satin,
fringad, and will have monogram as
already described above. The badges
for the marshal of the parade and his
aids will be in cherry satin, and with
the exception of the color, similar to
the badges for the subcommittee.
Col. Rockwell will stand beside the
president at the Ryan to present the
people to the president. Mayor Smith,
Congressman Rice and Judge c. E.
Flandrau will probably also assist Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland, who will
stand short distance from the head of
the main stairway in the recep-
ton parlor at the Ryan. Those
who wish to honor the president
will enter the hotel Oh the Sixth street
side, ascend the stairway, and then pass
the president, and proceed around the
balcony to the stairway leading from
the ladies' ordinary on the north side.
Ample police protection will be on
hand to prevent any jam. There is to
be
NO PRIVATE RECEPTION.
say members of the reception commit
tee, nor anything ceremonious, or more
formal than the occasion may call for
but simple spontaneous presentation
to the president and Mrs. Cleveland. In
fact the entire demonstration is to be
simple i'll its character. The comfort
of the distinguished guests of the city
is to be regarded rather than the social
ideas of any particular persons. Some
OF the carnival clubs have tried
TO EXCUSE THEMSELVES
from participating in the demonstration
by saying that they had not been in
vited. The fact is, no particular club
in the city has been invited other than
in a general way. They are all natur-
float, to be similar to that of last winter,
was being fitted up on Sixth street yes
terday afternoon under the personal
supervision of c.. MOnfort, of the
Windsor hotel. 1t will, of course, be
magnificent affair, and will seat seventy
five ladies, i'll five rows, three facing
toward the team of ten horses and two
facing Outward-a double terrace of
feminine beauty on wheels, and in the
Windsor colOrs of white, blue and gold.
The float is designed with two swans at
the front and three shells, each to seat.
a Elady, at the rear. The entire thing
will be covered by the canopy used last
winter. So far as known this is the
only float to turn out. The Nushkas
will turn out in carriages, and the st.
Georges, Columbus and other
snow shoe and toboggan clubs
will be afoot. The carnival clubs
will stand in single file, or rather rank,
on each side of Third street. from Wa
baSha down, the two ranks facing each
other. The president and party will be
driven by fOur-in-hand between the
two ranks of cOstumed carnivaliStS to
Bridge Square, where beneath an cleo
trie light starsand a motto lettered in
electric light ''Our President, the pres
ident will view the clubs as they pass
by him on their way to the Ryan.
Then on Robert street, from the Ryan
as far toward Third street as the clubs
will reach. they will stand in ranks as
before on Third street, so that the presi-
dent may pass between them on his
way to the Ryan.
The illuminatiOns are to be most
grand, especially at Bridge square. and
there has been commenced an arch OH
Wabasha street at the Grand opera
house.
All the details for the occasion will be
perfected at the general meeting of the
committees this afternoon.
SHE ONCE LIVED HERE.